2017 - TREE OF LIGHT

Tree of Light is a bespoke installation using 300 digital coconuts, each one individually addressable, working together to bring new life to a long time resident of the Gardens.

These guardians of our inherited landscape span the generations and have provided a sense of permanence in our radically changing community. Their presence encourages us to consider our responsibility to conserve and protect our natural surroundings.

The growth and development of LUMA has been made possible through a valued partnership with Queenstown Lakes District Council.

2017 - TIME TRAVELER

Time Traveler is a collaborative piece celebrating 150 years of the Queenstown Gardens.

Six projection screens will wrap around the iconic band rotunda displaying a choreographed sequence of short looping video, still and timelapse photography, text and animations depicting it's historic beginnings, the tales and larger then life characters and importance of this space in the development of Queenstown.

2017 - OUR PATCH

Queenstown Primary Pupils and SILO
Queenstown

Our Patch is a magnificent and magical garden created by 150 students from Remarkables and Queenstown Primary Schools in conjunction with SILO (South Island Light Orchestra) and WHS technology teacher Rebecca Lund. After drawing inspiration via classes on the natural world, students were then let loose to design, and create their own individual flower designs, using tracing paper, glue, and acetate. We hope you gain a little personal inspiration from the work and enjoy viewing it as much as we did creating it for LUMA 2017.

2017 - SKIPPING STONE

Fiona Garlick
Arrowtown

We experience a childish delight when we get a stone to skip three, four, maybe five times across the water. We secretly hope that someone else witnessed it. It is a special pleasure, similar to that of seeing a shooting star, or catching out of the corner of one’s eye, a single autumn leaf waltzing to the ground. Skipping Stone plays with the idea of capturing an instant in time, freezing and making permanent what is ephemeral. In this case, an unseen thrower has cast a perfect shiny pebble across the surface of the lake, leaving a silvery trail of concentric ripples.

Illumination by Simon Holden
Skipping Stone is illuminated by EL wire, and controlled by an Arduino 7 relays for each of the hops.

2017 - A STONE'S THROW

Mapping Mondays
Delainy Kennedy
Samuel Folkard
Auckland

Over the pond in the centre of the Queenstown Gardens lies a small picturesque stone arch bridge. Using the bridge as a backdrop, Mapping Monday has created a textural experience that will be bought to life through projection.

2017 - MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT

Angus Muir Design
Auckland

Towering to a height of 4 meters, Mountain of Light is a
monolithic installation, brought to life by a dramatic repertoire
of lighting effects that begin with subtle changes in colour
and culminate in a simulated eruption of shooting flames and
molten lava.

The installation is constructed from a series of modular
extruded columns that are assembled into the abstract
shape of a volcanic mountain. The mountain is designed
to be viewed and approached from all sides, offering a full
360-degree experience.

Each column is packed with computerised graphics that
can be controlled by visitors to create effects of superb
accuracy and realism. The entire mountain is controllable, so
participants can direct colour patterns to run from one side,
across, around, down and up the mountain. Surround sound
installed within the structure adds drama to the atmosphere.

2017 - BEACON

TomTom Productions
Queenstown

Beacon is an interactive light installation which is about to be exhibited at Wellington LUX and will be re-invented site-specific to LUMA17.
“Through hand gestures alone you are given control to find the most pleasing colour harmonies according to you”. Tom Lynch, Tom Tom Productions.

2017 - SWEEP

AJDC (Alexandra Heaney and Julia Heaney)
Auckland

Created for Vivid Sydney 2016, Sweep slowly moves with the breeze. When viewed from a distance this work provides the illusion of suspended light rods bobbing softly and gracefully from side to side, like a school of fish in a deep current; however, when viewed up close the effect is very different. The installation comprises of a hundred acrylic tubes, standing four meters tall.

2017 - EXTRUDE

Angus Muir Design
Auckland

Extrude is an extremely tall and imposing lighting installation designed to be viewed both at a distance and up close. From far away, the 16 translucent posts – each standing 10 metres high – form a tower with a commanding presence that acts as a beacon for the area.

Up close and inside the installation, the effect is more intimidating: the artist has deliberately made it look slightly precarious and its sheer scale and height makes all around it appear less significant. This work is designed to make people question the way it comes together: “It looks slightly precarious – is it safe?” or “How is that small base supporting those tall towers?” Each post is illuminated on all sides and constructed from fibre-reinforced plastic. They respond gently to the wind, sweeping from side to side but never touching.

2017 - Ladder of Life

Simon Holden (SILO)
Queenstown

Ladder of Life is an 9m high double helix sculpture made of aluminum, acrylic and thousands of controlled light pixel fully mapped and interactive. The inspiration for this sculpture has come from the helical structure of DNA, "the ladder of life". The piece explores visually the flow information and vast complexity together with the simplicity of it's design.

2017 - FORMS

Nikki Wilson + Creature
Sam Folkard
Previn Naidu
Auckland

This work is a reflection on how object and landscape add up to a collective visual record. An examination of how the sometimes gentle, sometimes rough moments when these two meet, affect our experience of place. In this installation we refer to the concept of Mauri, which is a belief in the flow of Mana from object or material to person. Through observing and interacting with a fictitious assembly of materials, structure, nature and bodily form, we consider our sensual and visceral experience of this place - on the edge of the world, and the Mana of our identity.

Sound design by Previn Nidu

Music 'Magma’ by 'Arli' from the album Allegra by Marigold Music

Nikki and Creature would like to thank the organisers of Luma, The Mapping Mondays and Holly & Josh Wallace for their assistance in bringing this piece to life.

For 2017 Dear Deer has created an entirely new experience - ‘Transparence’. A cube that is at once reflective, transparent, a cage and a portal to a different time a different place. Within the cube - music, performance, light, live, life…

2017 - LUMA LOUNGE

The World Bar, SILO and TomTom Productions
Queenstown

The rose garden will be transformed into a playful environment with hospitality, live DJ's and VJ's throughout the long weekend. Come and enjoy some delicious food, refreshing beverages, get warm and have a boogie.

2017 - EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE

Daniel K. Brown and Mark K. Johnson
Wellington

In Edge of the Universe, letters of the alphabet cascade like a waterfall between two trees in Queenstown Park. As the falling letters gain in intensity and momentum, they spell out selected lines from six poems by New Zealand writers, before disappearing into a shallow reflecting pool below. As the letters hit the water, they create a reflected cacophony of illumination. The first letter to fall is a capital N; as it slowly rotates it becomes a Z, then N and Z once more - New Zealand - before fading away at the bottom. The work begins and ends with: “I live at the edge of the universe like everybody else”, from a poem by Bill Manhire. The music is derived from the structural characteristics of the six poems, and the six movements of the soundscape represent the atmospheres they evoke.

2017 - EMPATHEIA

Tom Lynch
Queenstown

Step outside your comfort zone, or perhaps step into it and interact with empatheia. Please keep in mind at all times that it's not just about you, there are others to consider, always. And remember, if you want to find the secrets of empatheia, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

2017 - INTO THE UNDERSCORE

Anita Dykes
Wellington

Into the Underscore was designed by Anita Dykes from ECC using iGuzzini Underscore in/out product. Working in collaboration with Michael Warwick from Maw Design, Mike Ainsworth and Dorian Minty with support from Ullrich Aluminium and The Tag Agency.
A series of concentric circles dropping into space drawing the viewer into the Underscore. This lighting sculpture can be viewed from a distance but will inspire a closer look. Once inside the zone of the Underscore you will be pulled upward, possibly to another dimension as the sculpture reacts to your presence.

Soundscape by Paul Marlow aka Mr Oz
And technical support by Carl Dickson

2017 - Flame Entertainment

We welcome back Flame Entertainment this year to bring their amazing characters to the Queenstown Gardens.

FLAME Entertainment is a performance art company based in Queenstown for over 15 years. They specialize in creating visual spectacles thru various circus, dance, fire performance and theatrical acts to entertain, inspire and connect.
Check out the Flame Entertainment Website